On Dec 02, 2015, at 08:35 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >I wholeheartedly agree with what Nick writes there
As do I. One interesting point will be what *nix calls the /usr/bin thingie for Python 4. It would seem weird to call it /usr/bin/python3 and symlink it to say /usr/bin/python4.0 but maybe that's the most practical solution. OTOH, by 2023, Python 2 will at worst be in source-only security release mode, if not finally retired so maybe we can reclaim /usr/bin/python by then. Oh well, PEP 394 will hash all that out I'm sure. One other potentially disruptive change would be when Python's Einstein, er David Beazley, finally cracks the nut of the GIL. Should that require a new backward incompatible C API, Python 4.0 would be the time to do it. Cheers, -Barry _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
